Ave Roma Immortalis Studies From the Chronicles of Rome volume 1
Ave Roma Immortalis Studies From the Chronicles of Rome volume 1
Crawford Francis Marion
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And by and by, as the power of the Popes rose and they became again as the Caesars had been, Colonna and Orsini forgot their feuds, and were glad to stand on the Pope's right and left as hereditary 'Assistants of the Holy See. ' In the petty ending of all old greatnesses in modern times, the result of the greatest feud that ever made two races mortal foes is merely that no prudent host dare ask the heads of the two houses to dinner together, lest a question of precedence should arise, such as n...o master of cere- monies would presume to settle. That is what it has come to. Once upon a time an Orsini quarrelled with a Colonna in the Corso, just where Aragno's cafe is now Trevi 169 situated, and ran him through with his rapier, wounding him almost to death. He was carried into the palace of the Theodoli, close by, and the records of that family- tell that within the hour eight hundred of the Colonna's retainers were in the house to guard him. In as short space, the Orsini called out three thousand men in arms, INTERIOR OF THE MAUSOLEUM OF AUGUSTUS From a print of the last century when Caesar Borgia's henchman claimed the payment of a tax.
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